Vegetarian Cookbooks

Any of Rose Elliott's. The old Cranks book (which I needed just last week). Modern ones: Anna Jones, whose respect for ingredients and nurturing flavour is always an inspiration.

The BOSH! all plants cookbook is the best new book. All the recipes we’ve cooked from there have been excellent.

I've been using 'Laurel's Kitchen' for almost 30 years, not just a cookbook, also a good read.

Rose Elliot's Not Just a Load of Old Lentils.
I bought it when it first came out, lost it in a house move, and later managed to buy a copy from ?Amazon.
I still refer to it, even though we're not vegetarian now, but I like to make a veggie main course once a week.

The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook by Jane Price - you can still get copies but it must be over 20 years old. I also love Rose Elliot's Vegetarian Christmas. I do the "chestnut and red wine pate en croute" most winters. Nowadays I tend to look for recipes on youtube. For basic cookery methods and recipes I still use my Marguerite Patten Perfect Cooking that I got when I was first married in 1972. It usually has the answer.

..which it is, but dated 2014, so I'm afraid I, too, will find my favourite recipes no longer there..

LondonGranny delighted to find another fan of The Vegetarian Epicure! - must get another copy if it's still in print.

Oh, sounds interesting Paddyane, shall have a look at that one. I have found that some of the older vegetarian cookbooks are lots of interestingly arranged vegetables with little else.

Cuisine Imaginaire by Roselyne Masselin.I bought it many years ago when we had friends visiting who had recnetly become vegetarian ,it has menus for all four seasons and lots of nice veggie things that were quite hard to come by in the early 90's.I was so impressed by some of the food I produced from it that I became vegetarian

The Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Shaw.
I got my first copy in the mid-seventies after discovering Rose Elliot's Not Just A Load Of Old Lentils was indeed just a load of old lentils. The memory of her 'Shepherd's Pie' (lentils underneath, shredded wheat on top) is seared on my memory, and not in a good way. Like eating wet sawdust with an MDF topping.
The Vegetarian Epicure has undergone loads of revisions, which I discovered after I gave my well-worn copy to a friend of my son's and bought a new one & some of my favourite recipes were no longer there.